Ron Howard Quotes
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Confidence is preparation in action.
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I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.
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Of course, I was completely enthralled by the space program as a kid - particularly Apollo 11 - and was glued to the television like most of the world. Then I stopped thinking about it too much. I was a little disappointed that they weren't going on to Mars at the time, but I didn't think much of it. I was more interested in becoming a director at that point in my life and falling in love, things like that.
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When Apollo 13 appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel, and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.
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You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.
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It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .
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I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.
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I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.
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There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.
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3-D is a truly exciting possibility.
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If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.
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Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.
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The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.
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You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
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It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.
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I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.
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Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.
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Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.
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Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
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A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.
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I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.
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One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.
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I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.
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I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.
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